We've just had a new bag delivered for paper and cardboard. On the side it says to close the top as wet paper and cardboard can't be recycled. The only problem with that suggestion is that the top is flat with velcro on one edge only, there isn't any way to close the sides to prevent rain getting in. Great piece of design.
That sounds like the bags we used to have for the plastic recycling It was fine for that. We have bins now - glass and plastic together. I use those bags for leaves. I presumed the paper/card etc would be soaked too. How else do they get all the other sh*te off it to re purpose it?
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Any cardboard we collect either goes into A3 sized boxes to go to the recycling centre - no paper or cardboard collections here - except for bigger bits which go on the veg patch and get topped with our own compost to try and keep down persistent weeds and help retain moisture in the soil.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
We've got one of those bags @KT53, I just try to tuck the sides in a bit under the top when it goes out for recycling. Luckily there's enough room in our porch to keep it in the dry most of the week. I agree with you though, it's not the best design.
Like Obelixx, bigger pieces of cardboard get put on the veg beds over winter to protect the soil.
It should be the same here as it is at @Obelixx, but the locals don't take any notice. Often the village bins are full of cardboard boxes so there is no room for any other rubbish.
Soon they will be changed to huge bins with smaller openings and you will have to insert a card to open the general rubbish ones. There have been a lot of protests as there will be a limited amount of times you can use the card without paying extra and where will tourists and visitors put their rubbish? It will probably encourage people to dump rubbish on the ground by the bins.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
I don't use cardboard for covering soil, but most of mine goes in the compost bin. I discovered a few days ago that many cardboard products - those ones that are suspiciously shiny- are plastic coated. I emptied a new box of soap powder this morning, and it definitely has that. It'll be interesting to see if I find those bits when I use the compost. @Busy-Lizzie- where my younger daughter works, they have a new bin for recycling things like some plastic bags [the 'green' ones] and those nets on oranges etc. She sometimes has to empty it ready for the pick up, and finds that people have shoved all sorts in it - just treating it like a standard rubbish bin. What is wrong with some folk nowadays?
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
A grumble at stupidly wasteful packaging! Nikon reported a problem with the strap on my binoculars, and offered all affected a replacement strap. Mine arrived this week, all the way from the Netherlands. The strap is in the little plastic bag on top! Why on earth didn’t they just pop it in an envelope?
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We have bins now - glass and plastic together. I use those bags for leaves.
I presumed the paper/card etc would be soaked too. How else do they get all the other sh*te off it to re purpose it?
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Like Obelixx, bigger pieces of cardboard get put on the veg beds over winter to protect the soil.
Soon they will be changed to huge bins with smaller openings and you will have to insert a card to open the general rubbish ones. There have been a lot of protests as there will be a limited amount of times you can use the card without paying extra and where will tourists and visitors put their rubbish? It will probably encourage people to dump rubbish on the ground by the bins.
I discovered a few days ago that many cardboard products - those ones that are suspiciously shiny- are plastic coated. I emptied a new box of soap powder this morning, and it definitely has that. It'll be interesting to see if I find those bits when I use the compost.
@Busy-Lizzie- where my younger daughter works, they have a new bin for recycling things like some plastic bags [the 'green' ones] and those nets on oranges etc. She sometimes has to empty it ready for the pick up, and finds that people have shoved all sorts in it - just treating it like a standard rubbish bin. What is wrong with some folk nowadays?
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...